Identification card and holder



Jan. 15, 1924.

I 1,481,120 F. BROMBOSZ IDENTIFICATION CARD AND HOLDER Filed on. Is "1921 laqi.

IDENTIFICATION CHRP.

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CITY 6 STHTE HEIGHT WEIGHT HGE COLOR OF HFIIR COLOR OF EYES INVENTOR.

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H H ADDRESS Fatented .lan. l5, 1924.

FRANK BROMBOSZ, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IDENTIFICATION CARD AND IIOLDER.

Application filed. October 13, 1921. Serial No. 507,539.

To al who? it may concern:

.ve it known that I, FRANK Bnorrnosz, a of Qnited States. residing at Buffalo, he county of Erie and State of New ark. have invented certain new and useful improvements in an Identification Card and Holder; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an identification card and holder therefor.

The invention aims to provide a card to he carried on the person in pursuance to a system of surveillance while traveling and provide a novel transparent enclosing and protecting frame therefor.

i-rdditional and servient objects and advantages will become apparent as the following description is considered in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating one practical embodiment.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the card;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the reverse side of the card;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the card having the holder placed thereon;

Figure 4: is a cross sectional view on the line 4 4 of Figure 3, and I Figure 5 is a perspective view illustrating the parts disassembled and relatively close together.

Throughout the several views like reference characters designate like or similar parts.

Referring specifically to. the drawings, identification card A is employed which is adapted to be carried on the person 'on one side of which is contained a photograph of the person, the other side of which contains a suitable description as at 6 and which is substantially similar to police records of criminals. My system consists in requiring persons before traveling, to suitably register and receive one of the identification cards and to register such identification card in each place visited as with the railroad station agent. If the traveler should be a criminal, and a fugitive from justice, his

description can be wired to the station agent 1 who can tnen consult his records, and if he has registered be of service to the police in apprehending him.

In order to protect the card, as from wear in the pocket of an article of clothing, against each side thereof a transparent panel, as of celluloid, as at 7, may be provided. These panels and the cards are of the same size and are'adapted to be secured together by means of clasp strips 8,. disposed one along each side of the card and panels. These strips are also preferably made of celluloid and are U-shaped in cross section and the fastening walls thereof have a tendency to contact, in order that they may be opened with slight pressure to receive the cards and panels and then permitted to contract in order to clasp and hold the panels and card together. The panels and clasp strips are readily detachable.

In applying the holder, the panels are placed against opposite sides thereof and two of the clasp strips arranged to hold' them together by parallel disposition, after which the remaining claspstrips are applied soas not only to clasp over the panels and cards,

but over the ends of the previously applied clasp strips as suggested by the dotted lines in Figure 3. r

It is to be understood that changes in the form and details of the invention may be resorted to within the spirit and scope.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is I j s V 1. A device of the class described consisting of a card, a transparent panel to cover and protect the same, clasp strips of U-shape from end to end adapted of themselves to secure the card and panel together,

said claspv strips being detachably engage;

able with the card and panel along edges thereof, and said clasp strips being ofa,

length whereby one end of a strip at each corner of the device will slip over the adjacent corner of the adjacent strip.

2. A device of the class described consisting ofa card, a transparent panel disposed over the card and being substantially coextensive therewith, transparent substantially parallel clasp strips of U-shape from end to end securing said panel and card together, second transparent clasp strips, said second clasp strips being of a length Whereby their ends Will slip over the ends of the first mentioned clasp strips, the clasp strips of themselves secur ng the panel and card together, and the clasp strips having their receiving space normally of less width than the combined thickness of the panel and card.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK BROMBOSZ. Witnesses FRANK SURDY, HELEN M. NANICHI. 

